View the book

(~174 pg)Read Online
(12.4 M)PDF
(10.6 M)B/W PDF
(753.8 K)EPUB
(~174 pg)Kindle
(~174 pg)Daisy
(432.0 K)Full Text
(9.6 M)DjVu

All Files: HTTPS Torrent (2/0)

Resources

Bookmark

A true & exact history of the island of Barbados : illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making ... : all cut in copper (1657)

Author: Ligon, Richard; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676; Moseley, Humphrey, d. 1661
Subject: Botany; Sugar
Publisher: London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ...
Language: English
Call number: 320738
Digitizing sponsor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Book contributor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Collection: getty; americana
Notes: Some very tight gutter and margins. Some text may fall into the gutters. Some slight over-cropping may occur

Full catalog record: MARCXML

This book has an editable web page on Open Library.

Description

First 2 p. blank. Folded letterpress leaf with title "An index to the platforme or superficies of an ingenio, that grinds or squeezes the sugar" follows p. 84

The thirteen leaves of plates include 2 double-page maps tipped in at the centerfold, the first a general map of the island by John Ogilby

Signatures: [A]² a-b² B-2I² chi1

Includes index

Errata, last p

Wing

Sabin

Binding: old calfskin, tooled in gilt along margins of boards and on spine, author & title on spine label

Bookplate of Hugh Craggs

Be the first to write a review
Downloaded 160 times Reviews

Selected metadata

Page-progression:	lr
Scanningcenter:	santamonica
Mediatype:	texts
Shiptracking:	a0004
Identifier:	trueexacthistory00ligo
Scanner:	scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
Foldout_seconds:	886
Ppi:	300
Camera:	Canon 5D
Operator:	melody@...
Scandate:	20111202000329
Imagecount:	174
Foldoutcount:	4
Identifier-access:	http://www.archive.org/details/trueexacthistory00ligo
Identifier-ark:	ark:/13960/t36122533
Bookplateleaf:	0005
Ocr:	ABBYY FineReader 8.0
Sponsordate:	20111231